In Chelsea, thieves have ripped off and taken away bronze plaques commemorating the city’s parks and those who aided in building them.

There isn’t much a municipality can do short of contacting all local junk dealers when thefts like that have been recorded.

As for Lynn’s Park’s being vandalized – to stop that takes more police vigilance, that and residents looking out their windows and calling the police when they see vandals trying to take down an 80 foot high light pole.